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NEWPORT NEWS - City Democrats will formally open their 1989 campaign headquarters at 14749 Warwick Blvd., near Beechmont Drive, at 10 a.m. today.

Don Beyer, the party's candidate for lieutenant governor, will attend.

HEALTH DEPT. SEEKS PIT BULL, HURT CAT

NEWPORT NEWS - The city Health Department is hoping to spare two people from taking the anti-rabies vaccine and needs to locate a yellow male tabby cat with a wound under its neck and a black pit bull dog.

The cat bit a woman in the vicinity of Dimmock Avenue in the Deer Park area of the city Wednesday.

The pit bull bit a man Thursday near Ninth Street and Lassiter Avenue.

Anyone who has information on these two animals is advised to call the Health Department at 594-7340, or the SPCA at 595-1399.

WOMEN'S CAUCUS HEARS RATTLEY SPEAK

Newport News Mayor Jessie M. Rattley spoke Friday night at the Ninth Biennial Convention of the National Women's Political Caucus in St. Paul, Minn. Rattley represented the nation's mayors at the conference and spoke on the progress women have made in public office.